“Children, everyone should try to wake up before five in the morning. The ideal time for spiritual practices like meditation and chanting is Brahma Muhurta. During this period, sattvic qualities are predominant in nature. Moreover, the mind will be clear and body energetic.”

The first step in spiritual life is to have compassion. A person who is kind and loving never needs to go searching for God. God rushes toward any heart that beats with compassion-it is God’s favorite place.

Today, our air, food, water-all are polluted. If we do not stop exploiting nature for our temporary selfish gains, we will destroy the world.

The greatest tragedy in life is not death; the greatest tragedy takes place when our talents and capabilities are underutilized and allowed to rust while we are living.

We live in a calculative world and have a calculative mind, and in such a world, ego dominates.

Children should observe a regular schedule for sleeping and waking up.

While eating, our attention should not be focused just on the taste. Imagine our chosen deity or guru is present within us and that we are feeding Him. This will turn eating into a spiritual practice.

Make a firm decision: ‘Whatever happens, I will be happy. I will be strong. God is always with me.’

Education for livelihood alone will never make our life full and complete.

Those that have an attitude of service towards others are the beauty of society.

Our hearts are the shrine; that is where God should be installed. Our good thoughts are the flowers to worship Him. Good deeds form the worship, good words form the hymns and love forms the offering.

The guru is not someone who is confined to the body. When there is selfless love for the guru, we will be able to see him not only in his body but in every living and nonliving thing in this world. Learn to see everything as the guru’s body and to serve them accordingly.

Once you learn the art of relaxation, everything happens spontaneously and effortlessly.

Happiness depends on how you accept, understand and surrender to situations.

Talking high philosophy often confuses people, but a look from an egoless person can lift the clouds of pain and despair.

Animals too experience sorrow, love, anger and other emotions.

Pure love makes you feel as light as a flower. You won’t feel any heaviness or burden. Ego creates the burden.

Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything-it can stop the Vietnam War. It can make its will felt, if it can ever get its act together to do anything.

Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.

Without volunteers, we’d be a nation without a soul.

For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.

Even seasonal situations can bring with them lessons that last a lifetime. If the love doesn’t last, it prepares you for the one that will.

I think judicial temperament is a willingness to step back from your own committed views of the correct jurisprudential approach and evaluate those views in terms of your role as a judge. It’s the difference between being a judge and being a law professor.

The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.

It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.